Todd M. Stafford
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Faculty Director of the Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program
401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309-0401
Office: 430
Phone: (303) 735-5090
E-mail: todd.stafford@colorado.edu
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
Educational Background: | |||
J.D. | Duke University School of Law | 1992 | |
B.A. | Southern Methodist University | 1989 | magna cum laude |
Todd Stafford joined the Colorado Law School faculty in 2000, after practicing law for eight years as a civil litigator. He practiced primarily in the areas of employment law, commercial litigation, and attorney malpractice, and litigated in both state and federal courts at the trial and appellate levels. He has also provided pro bono legal services, chiefly in the area of civil liberties.
Courses:
Fall 2025 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-806 |
Fall 2025 | Introduction To US Law For LLM Students | LAWS 9025-801 |
Spring 2025 | Argument and Persuasion in American Law | LAWS 4808-801 |
Spring 2025 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-806 |
Fall 2024 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-806 |
Fall 2024 | Legal Imagination | LAWS 7418-801 |
Fall 2024 | Introduction To US Law For LLM Students | LAWS 9025-801 |
Fall 2024 | Intro To US Legal Practice: Legal Writing, Research and Analysis | LAWS 9246-801 |
Summer 2023 | Introduction to U.S. Law for Undergraduate Student | LAWS 4075-002 |
Spring 2023 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-806 |
Spring 2023 | Legal Imagination | LAWS 7418-801 |
Fall 2022 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-806 |
Fall 2022 | Introduction To US Law For LLM Students | LAWS 9025-901 |
Spring 2022 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-806 |
Spring 2022 | Legal Imagination | LAWS 7418-801 |
Fall 2021 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-806 |
Fall 2021 | Introduction To US Law For LLM Students | LAWS 9025-901 |
Summer 2021 | Introduction to U.S. Law for Undergraduate Student | LAWS 4075-002 |
Spring 2021 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-806 |
Spring 2021 | Legal Imagination | LAWS 7418-801 |
Fall 2020 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-806 |
Fall 2020 | Introduction To US Law For LLM Students | LAWS 9025-901 |
Spring 2020 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-806 |
Spring 2020 | Advanced Legal Writing | LAWS 6226-801 |
Fall 2019 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-806 |
Fall 2019 | Introduction To US Law For LLM Students | LAWS 9025-901 |
Summer 2019 | Introduction to U.S. Law for Undergraduate Student | LAWS 4075-002 |
Spring 2019 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-804 |
Spring 2019 | Advanced Legal Writing | LAWS 6226-801 |
Fall 2018 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-806 |
Fall 2018 | Advanced Appellate Advocacy | LAWS 6213-801 |
Fall 2018 | Introduction To US Law For LLM Students | LAWS 9025-801 |
Summer 2018 | Introduction to U.S. Law for Undergraduate Student | LAWS 4075-002 |
Spring 2018 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-804 |
Spring 2018 | Advanced Legal Writing | LAWS 6226-802 |
Fall 2017 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-804 |
Summer 2017 | Introduction to U.S. Law for Undergraduate Student | LAWS 4075-002 |
Spring 2017 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-806 |
Spring 2017 | Seminar: Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion | LAWS 8808-001 |
Spring 2017 | Seminar: Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion | LAWS 8808-902 |
Fall 2016 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-806 |
Spring 2016 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-804 |
Spring 2016 | Advanced Legal Writing | LAWS 6226-001 |
Fall 2015 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-806 |
Spring 2015 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-804 |
Spring 2015 | Advanced Legal Writing | LAWS 6226-001 |
Fall 2014 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-804 |
Spring 2014 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-804 |
Spring 2014 | Advanced Legal Writing | LAWS 6226-001 |
Fall 2013 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-804 |
Spring 2013 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-804 |
Spring 2013 | Advanced Legal Writing | LAWS 6226-003 |
Fall 2012 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-804 |
Our Vision
With our roots in Colorado and a global outlook, we are ...
a supportive and diverse educational and scholarly community in a place that inspires vigorous pursuit of ideas, critical analysis, contemplation, and civic engagement to advance knowledge about the law in an open, just society.
Our Mission
To be an outstanding public law school that: provides students with a state-of-the-art legal education and prepares them to serve wisely and with professionalism; advances the development of knowledge through scholarship, testing of new ideas, and challenges to the status quo; and serves as a vehicle and catalyst for meaningful public service, all of which deliver high value to our students and have positive impacts?both locally and globally?on the legal profession and society.